Re: Problem converting byte[] to string

Scott,

If it doesn't work for the ASCII one, then the encoding isn't ASCII.
Rather, it is a special implementation based on the protocol. It's not that
the encoding is wrong, it's that the protocol is doing something
non-standard.

Do you have more information as to what the protocol is expecting/doing?


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"scott" <scottamillard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d8mv8i$ips$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thx for the quick reply
>
> I did acutlay try all the ones that exist in System.Text namespace and the
> only one that worked was the ASCII one. it just did not do them special
> charectors. I was just wondering if any one new a reason as to why this
> was
> so that i could correct the problem. If no one knows to a reason as to
> why
> its not doing it ill keep hunting around for an answer.
>
> "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> in
> message news:%23hrjgjPcFHA.3488@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Scott,
>>
>> Why not just find out what encoding those other clients are using?
> The
>> server should be using some well-defined encoding scheme (ASCII, UTF8, or
>> something of that nature). When you find out what it is, just find the
>> corresponding .NET encoding class (in the System.Text namespace, most of
>> them are there), and run your bytes through that.
>>
>> If it is not a well-defined encoding, then I would take the rules
>> that
>> make up how the bytes are sent/transformed and derive a class from
> Encoding
>> that encapsulates these rules.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> --
>> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>> - mvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> "scott" <scottamillard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:d8mtfs$thf$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > hi all, hope some one can help me, this prob is driving me mad.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > im using sockets to communicate between a client and a server. I
>> > don't'
>> > have control over the client and how it sends the data so i have had to
>> > try
>> > and work out how it is doing it. From what i can see it is sending the
>> > data
>> > in ASCII because if i try to use Unicode it just stops working, where's
>> > with
>> > ASCII i can get response from it and send and receive data.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The problem.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The client sends to me a load of data, most of it is ok however some of
>> > the
>> > data contains special text like §. When i try to decode one of these
>> > or
>
>> > anything else like it the decoding just goes wrong and it reads it as a
> _.
>> > I know that it must be possible because other people have been able to
>> > communicate with the client and use these special characters but i
>> > can't
>> > seem to.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Does any one have any ideas ?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thx scott.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>


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